I saw the piano about 3 years and 3 tunings later and the pins had come loose. Based on this experience I don't know if this would be a repair that I would recommend. Any others with this area of experience. Mike Swendsen swendsec@cadvision.com Mike I haven't followed a piano with this application for three years, probably two years tops. No problems as of yet. I should make clear that I only reluctantly advocate applying super glue to a loose pinblock. I'd much rather close the fallboard and schedule the piano for pick-up and a rebuild. True, the super glue has worked for me, but I recommend it as one recommends a tourniquet to stop bleeding. This is reserved for soon-to-be dead pianos... piano fatalities, so to speak. I'll share a story, from just this week to illustrate how I use super glue. The piano had been restrung elsewhere out of state, with 6/0 oversized pins only five years ago. I tuned it and got a call within a week that the tuning wasn't holding. I went back to the home and showed the lady that the notes in question were the ones I had chalked during the tuning as very loose. I promised her I'd mail her a proposal to install a new pinblock, and before I left, squirted some red label super glue beside those pins. Her son couldn't even play his songs it sounded so bad. There's a usage in context. I try to couple the application with a preparation for further work. My experience with turning the piano upside down to get super glue into the bottom side of the pinblock hole was disappointing also. I did try it once and I had high hopes, but the super glue traveled into the end grain of the side of the hole before it seeped down beside the tuning pins. So, even though I thought it was doing a lot, because the glue was disappearing, it really wasn't. I also don't like this because,..... it is very scary to think that there may be some unhardened super glue awaiting you as you turn the piano back over. Yeeeeooowww! I hate it when that happens. But think about this, even if, worst case scenario, one application does get only three extra years, many customers would still say, OK lets try it? It might give the customer time to save, time to adjust to the concept of rebuilding and eventually, when the next failure occurs, realize that a rebuild to your shop is in order. Sometimes people appreciate you doing something if they can't afford the rebuild at that time. David Sanderson Littleton, MA Pianobiz@aol.com
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